University of the Cumberlands

University of the Cumberlands (UC) awarded and honored three students during the English department's awards ceremony. The students who received awards included: Michael Ferraro (Corbin, Kentucky), Dage Spinning (London, Ohio), and Katelyn Dunne (Chicago, Illinois).

On Saturday, May 9th, University of the Cumberlands (UC) recognized 43 undergraduate students who were named Hutton Scholars during the annual commencement ceremony in the O. Wayne Rollins Center. The Hutton Leadership and Community Service Program is a four-phase program providing leadership training and community service opportunities for the UC students.

Four members of the University of the Cumberlands' (UC) class of 2015 left commencement as United States Army Officers as the University's ROTC program held its Commissioning ceremony during UC's 2015 graduation.

University of the Cumberlands' (UC) Baptist Campus Ministries (BCM) sent four teams out for their annual spring break mission trips across the east coast. BCM sent 11 people, including UC's campus minister Dean Whitaker, to Panama City Beach, Florida for a week to provide free shuttle rides and free pancake breakfasts to beachgoers.

University of the Cumberlands' (UC) senior Sofia Mena Molina (Williamsburg, Kentucky) received the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Outstanding Senior in French award.

Over the course of this summer one University of the Cumberlands (UC) student, Lydia Huggins (Erwin, TN), spent over two months serving as a missionary doing media relations work for Face2Face. Spreading the gospel and sharing His love on a global scale will forever remain top priorities to Huggins.

University of the Cumberlands' (UC) Appalachian Ministries (AM) team visited the Corbin Manor Apartments July 14th through the 18th and held Vacation Bible School (VBS) on the complex's property in Corbin. There were nearly 25 kids from the apartments in attendance.

Williams took a common worship theme, freedom, and made it his own during his discourse. He said what freedom is to a regular person is defined differently from what God's definition of freedom is. He said Jesus allows a person to be set free by Him, but only because that person belongs to Him, in which Williams called a paradox.

The Repair Affair team processed applicants who were in serious need of various types of repairs at local residencies and provided labor and materials to complete the repairs at no cost to the home owners. There were approximately 85 volunteers, 30 of them being UC students and members from First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Ky. who came out to help with the various projects at hand.

Gine Nichols (Horse Cave, Ky.), University of the Cumberlands' (UC) student and member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Corbin, Ky., spent a week in Nairobi, Kenya ministering to children and young women in the slums this past summer.

During the 2014 Homecoming ceremonies, Miss Danielle Hoop and Mr. Kasey Malone were crowned University of the Cumberlands' (UC) 2014 Homecoming Queen and King. Congratulations to the 2014 homecoming king, queen and court on your achievement and nomination.